In a contemporary society that is over-designed, over-securitized, over-rationalized and privatized, our battlefield is public space. Many architects and designers hack and tweak the city by transforming it in unexpected ways. The in-between spaces, which are still undefined, play an important role in the creative development and character of cities. Fenced, locked, skate-proofed, sit-proofed, sleep-proofed, the city has become sanitized.
Co-machines are mobile informal micro-structures which are parasitic or symbiotic in this urban eco-system. Co-machines disrupt the overbearing market values to create alternative realities. Co-machines look for and exploit tipping points in the system. Co-machines obstruct, block traffic, change places, allowing new bodies to occupy and interact, inhabit, to construct- even if just for an instance a different world, a utopia, a dystopia- a vision of how the city might be, finding potentials in our urban landscape. Or they call to our attention the invisible ways our cities are being manipulated by zoning-laws, traffic laws, advertising, architects, graffiti-writers, skateboarders, conflicts, canals, planners.
If you have designed a Co-machine please submit your design for the Co-machine Open-Source Catalogue, which will capture and explain how to make DIY, adhoc, hackable, movable microtectures. Please provide:
• At least 1 explanatory drawing of the machine
• At least 1 perspective drawing, image or render of the co-machine
• Where and how it was deployed
• Your machine's mission in it's local environment
• Your CV
Up to 25 designs will contacted and invited to be featured in an exhibition where on/off will build the GUERRILA PRINTING PRESS pictured. This MOBILE PRESS will allow for visitors to print and bind a copy of the Co-machine Open-Source Catalogue.
email your project to: co-machines@onoff.cc
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